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Unbeatable combination. Enhancing performance, reliability, and security ensuring the availability of critical business workload
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IBM mainframe storage solutions for IBM Z and LinuxONE deliver unparalleled reliability, scalability, and security for your most demanding workloads. Designed to handle massive volumes of data with exceptional performance, our storage systems ensure your business operates smoothly, even in the face of rapid growth and complex transactions.

An integrated mainframe storage solution provides a cloud-native experience, encryption everywhere, cyber resilience, always-on availability and flexible deployment for businesses of all sizes.

Minimize business impacts from ransomware, cyber-attacks, hardware failures, natural disasters, and other threats.

Benefits

Maximize the continuity of vital business operations through 8- 9's of data availability, multi-site replication, advanced data protection and data resilience capabilities.

Accelerate application responsiveness up to 73% more IOPs for high volume transaction processing with PCIe Gen 4 flash enclosure, while reducing transaction time with ZHyperlink up to 2.5X.
Latest integration from IBM’s research to improve the capabilities of your Z environment and Power Servers with IBM FlashCore Module technology delivering bus-speed performance, inline compression, data encryption, and more with the added ability to store 2x more data on the same physical space.
Seamless manage cutting-edge workloads, including Artificial Intelligence integrated with analytics tools to deliver insights and predictive capabilities, with reliability, high- performance storage solution for new, intensive workloads, including AI projects.

IBM Storage Solutions for Mainframe IBM Storage DS8000

Latest innovation in enterprise-class storage designed to harness the full power of mainframe architectures, ensuring organizations have constant access to critical workloads, consistent and optimized data.

IBM TS7700

High performance All Flash and high capacity storage solutions to provide data protection and disaster recovery for your hybrid cloud with virtual tape or object store configurations.

End-to-end integration IT leaders today have made data resilience a top priority; a mission-critical system is defined as an IT solution that is essential to the survival of a business. When a mission-critical system fails or is interrupted, business operations are significantly impacted. In a world where everything seems mission-critical and where business and technology must innovate together, that’s where you find DS8000 + IBM Z + TS7700 in the best integration by design in the market. 8-9's

With improved reliability and higher availability of up to 99.999999%

20%

Up to 20% latency reduction​ with NVMe, PCIe Gen 4 and ZHyperlink​

100%

100% Encryption Cyber Resilience with AirGap, ZCyberVault and SafeGuarded Copy

2x

Up to 2X capacity in the same physical space​

Sorage and IBM Power Systems

Better than 99.999999 (“eight nines”) availability with HyperSwap support for IBM AIX® and IBM i.

Thin provisioning and efficient reclaim of deleted space to make it available for reuse in IBM i.
Native format support of 520-byte block size for IBM i for superior performance and storage capacity utilization.
SAN Network solutions for mainframe

Take advantage of a smarter data center that improves performance, reliability, efficiency and cuts costs.

SAN42B-R7

Explore the industry.leading Generation 7 extension switch solution that provides cyber-resilient replication connectivity for enterprise storage

SAN38C4-6

A next-generation system switching device designed specifically for large-sclae storage netwroks. With added enterprise connectivity options, it provides flexible, stable support for IBM Z systems servers

Advantage

IBM is a Gartner Primary Storage Magic Quadrant Leader

Thanks to its broad portfolio of eternal enterprise storage arrays for the primary storage market, including IBM Storage DS8000, IBM has been named a Leader in the 2023 Gartner Primary Storage Magic Quadrant

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IBM LinuxONE 4

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IBM Storage Networking

Optimize your storage infrastructure with unparalleled visibility, analytics, and end-to- end monitoring for complex storage environments

Resources IBM Storage Expert Care for IBM DS8000

IBM Storage Expert Care offers a simplified, standardized approach to service and support for select IBM Storage systems, helping optimize system availability and reduce costs.

Technology lifecycle services for IBM Storage

IBM provides support and services for IBM Storage products and solutions to help clients plan, deploy, support. optimize and refresh their IBM Storage solutions.

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